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The healthcare industry is a complicated, multi-trillion-dollar gargantuan and require that a healthcare law firm deploy its specialized knowledge across multiple domains.

California passes its own versions of the federal EKRA law. The legislation was enacted due to the increase of opioid deaths and cases of addiction. Failure to comply with the new law can result [...]

Doctors must comply with California’s Professional Corporation Act. A professional medical corporation provides many advantages over a partnership or sole proprietorship.

Physicians providing aesthetic and cosmetic medical services and healthcare startups involved in aesthetic, medspa and cosmetic medicine, need to understand corporate practice of medicine issues, [...]

We love our clients, we appreciate them, and we wish that more people would take advantage of the opportunity to take a deep dive into ways that they can strategically handle the very complex [...]

Whether your healthcare venture involves digital health, mobile health, or a physical health and wellness center, strong vs. weak corporate practice of medicine prohibitions can be deadly.

We are experts in Stark and kickback law, fee splitting issues, FDA enforcement, FTC enforcement, legal issues surrounding advertising and marketing, medical board issues, medical technology, [...]

We are experts in Stark and kickback law, fee splitting issues, FDA enforcement, FTC enforcement, legal issues surrounding advertising and marketing, medical board issues, medical technology, [...]

Creating new paradigms of health and wellness and empowering those paradigms by finding support in the law

Physicians and healthcare startups beware of FDA, FTC, and medical board liability: what you don’t know.

A telemedicine healthcare startup wants to create a profitable healthcare venture by connecting patients with medical doctors, and also getting a markup off of goods and services sold to [...]

Naturally, like any other business model, augmenting one’s clientele may be a priority for medical and other healthcare practitioners. Is it legal to offer coupons and discounts?

Physicians regularly work with businesses who want the doctors to use their products. To encourage physicians to choose their practice over competitor practices, vendors often offer incentives. [...]

If you have a medical management company (MSO), you might be wondering, can your MSO brand itself with the same name as the medical clinic, and even license the name to the physician that owns [...]

MSOs (medical services organizations), or physician management and marketing companies, routinely come to us for legal advice about how to create and run an MSO profitably, in a compliant way, [...]

FDA labeling is one of the most important regulatory requirements for dietary supplements in that it provides the consumer the necessary information on the product. Indeed, ensuring that all [...]

You’re a licensed medical doctor, happy in your aesthetic medicine or plastic surgery practice, and you’re working part-time with a medical spa in a way that is increasing your income without [...]

A California investigation and disciplinary action against a California naturopathic doctors suggests how physicians can incur legal jeopardy when operating a medical spa, holistic healthcare [...]

Is HIPAA compliance a mystery to you? What do you have to do for HIPAA, and when?

For an OTC drug marketing legal checklist, 5 legal strategy steps can propel you to market.

"Medical director" creates enforcement red flags particularly when medical spas or health care ventures award the title willy-nilly. In this post, we discuss legal pitfalls and offer some legal [...]

Kudos to integrative medicine consultant Glenn Sabin for his bold post on integrative medicine standard of care - suggesting that integrative health should be the standard against which [...]

Digital health advances set healthcare law on edge because health tech develops exponentially while laws grow linearly.

Legal review of concierge medicine contracts is needed to handle regulatory issues & liability risks, as otherwise medical doctors opening concierge practices risk triggering all sorts of [...]

Is an online directory of healthcare centers a medical referral service? We’ve had several online directories of healthcare services ask us what legal rules govern their operation. Below we [...]

When medical doctors collaborate with other licensed healthcare providers (such as chiropractors) in a multidisciplinary, clinical care or integrative medicine setting, legal risks can arise that [...]

Healthcare bonuses raise fee-splitting and anti-kickback issues; is there a workaround?

Where healthcare policy & the future of humanity meet is at the intersection of technology and consciousness.

Healthcare reform and declining Medicare reimbursement have thrown physicians for a financial loop; how can medical doctors increase physician income despite healthcare reform?

Healthcare fraud remains a broad regulatory category that enforcement authorities can use against the manufacturer or distributor of a healthcare product that raises questions in the minds of [...]

P4 medicine takes healthcare to a whole level, requiring deeper understanding of how healthcare & FDA law shape the path to market for your healthcare service or product.

When buying, selling, or starting an urgent care center, be sure to handle legal and regulatory pitfalls adroitly.

Pundits prognosticate, but how do we measure a future for healthcare when every trend morphs asymptotically?

If you want to know where the next healthcare revolution will come from, look inside. Physical medicine becomes virtual medicine, becomes mobile healthcare, becomes wearable health and then [...]

Learn how to rock concierge medicine laws by answering some key concierge medicine legal questions.

Health care governing boards can look to "Practical Guidance for Health Care Governing Boards on Compliance Oversight" for advice in designing a compliance program.